Entanglement entropy, entropy production and time evolution in high energy QCD

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2018.10.043zbMATH Open1416.81206arXiv1806.01089OpenAlexW2805657083WikidataQ129032688 ScholiaQ129032688MaRDI QIDQ2316111FDOQ2316111

Mirko Serino, A. Kovner, Michael Lublinsky

Publication date: 26 July 2019

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Working in the framework of the Color Glass Condensate effective theory of high energy QCD, we revisit the momentum space entanglement entropy of the soft gluons produced in high energy dilute-dense collisions. We extend the work of~cite{Kovner:2015hga} by considering entropy produced in a single event. This entropy arises due to decoherence of eigenstates with different energies during the time evolution after the collisions with the target. We define it rigorously as the entanglement entropy of the produced system with the experimental apparatus. We compute the time dependent single event entropy in the limit of weak projectile field. Further we compute the entropy for the ensemble of events defined by the McLerran-Venugopalan model for the projectile wave function. Interestingly the entropy of the ensemble has a much weaker time dependence than the entropy in any single event. We attribute this feature to the so called monogamy of entanglement.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01089

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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